ChemSpider Blog

We have about a million structures backlogged in our deposition system at present and are feeding in the smaller depositions at present. As the number of data sources increases the ability to see a little more information about each of the Data Sources is necessary. We put callout balloons on the Record View page so that you can hover over the name of the data source provider and this will provide an overview of the depositor. We have just layered the same capabilities onto the list of Data Sources at this page so if you want to know a little more about the Data Source just hover over the name of the depositor and up will pop up a balloon as shown below. For example, the one below represents our latest addition from the Manchester Center for Integrative Systems Biology.

The Advisory Group for ChemSpider has been undergoing some turnover to bring fresh faces and new ideas. We are glad to welcome Rudy Potenzone to our members. I have known Rudy for a number of years and have had the privilege of working with him during his tenure at Microsoft as he hosts the BioIT Alliance.

From the Advisory group page:
Rudy Potenzone has joined the ChemSpider advisory board to add his broad product experience in delivering novel user experiences for large enterprise and commercial databases. “Science is driven by the ability to see what has already been done, and expand upon it. Access to existing information is best provided by capable capture of the original data in context and at the time of creation. ChemSpider facilitates that data capture and its subsequent broad dissemination.” Rudy is currently the Worldwide Pharma Industry Technology Strategist for Microsoft. Previously he ran R&D at MDL (during the early development of DiscoveryGate and Isentris), Research and New Product Development at Chemical Abstracts (during the original SciFinder development), and the ELN Development group at CambridgeSoft. Other products that Rudy was involved with include QUANTA/CHARMm (Polygen/MSI/Accelrys), ChemLAB, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis and the NIH/EPA Chemical Information System.